by Dawn Braasch

Children's Picture Book
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, performed by Carly Simon, illustrated by Amiko Hirao, written by Jack Norworth - Imagine!/Peter Yarrow Books
Take a trip to the ballgame with the inimitable Carly Simon and artist Amiko Hirao.

Middle Grade Fiction
Cape Cod Surprise by Carol Cronin - Gemma Media
1954. New Bedford. Cape Cod. Martha's Vineyard. Sailing. Time travel. Hurricane Carol - whose destruction was so complete her name was retired forever. Adventure of the highest order, with a little fantasy thrown in for good measure, taking place right in our own backyard!

Young Adult Fiction
Clarity by Kim Harrington - Scholastic.
In a tourist town on the Cape lives a family of freaks. Clarity "Clare" Fern's family. She's a psychic. Her brother's a medium. Her mother's a telepath. Tourists love them. Townies scorn them. They live in a grand Victorian house with no permanent ghosts, and they use the first floor for their family business: readings. Not the bookstore kind. Clare can see your secrets...

Adult Fiction
Caleb's Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks - Viking.
Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.

Adult Nonfiction
Reading My Father, by Alexandra Styron - Scribner Book Co.
From William Styron's Tidewater,Virginia youth and precocious literary debut, to the triumphs of his best-known books and on through his spiral into depression, Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist's life, offering a ringside seat on a great literary generation's friendships and their dramas. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written, with humor, compassion, and grace.

All of the titles mentioned in this article are available both at the Bunch of Grapes bookstore on Main Street, Vineyard Haven or on line at www.bunchofgrapes.com.